CURRENT TOPICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 215, 11 March 1914, Page 4

CURRENT TOPICS.

FRIENDSHIP. The faith'of friends is a perpetual stimulus. How it nerves and encourages us to do our best when we feel that scores of friends Teally believe in us! It means a great deal to have enthusiastic friends always looking out for our interests, working for us all the time, saying a good word for us at everjr opportunity, supporting us, speaking for us in our absence when we need a friend, stopping slanders, shielding our sensitive, weak spots, killing lies which would injure us, correcting falso impressions, trying to set us right, overcoming the prejudices created by some mistake or slip or a first bad impression we made, who are always doing something to give us a lift or help us along! One reason why so many people aro disappointed with what life has for them is because they have never cultivated the capacity for friendship. Friendship is no one-sided affair, Kut an exchange of soul-quali-ties. There can.be no friendship without reciprocity. Many people are not capable of forming' great friendships, because they do not have the qualities themselves which attract noble qualities in others. If you are crammed with despicable qualities you cannot expect anyone to care for you. If you arc uncharitable, intolerant; if you lack generosity, cordiality; if you are narrow and bigoted, unsympathetic, you cannot expect that generous, largehearted, noble characters will flock around you. CAREER OF MR. T. MANN. Mr. Mann, who, the cables inform ua, is being entertained in England prior to going to South Africa on behalf of the trades unions of that country, got himself into trouble in England a conpie of years ago in connection with the syndicalist agitation. He is 50 j'ears of age, and has for many years taken a leading part in many of the Labor troubles, both in Britain and in Australia. He first came into prominence in the great dock strike in Britain in 1889, having previously joined .the Social Democratic Federation. After the dock strike he organised the dock laborer, and was the first secretary of the Lon don Reform Union. A Liberal Government appointed him a member of the Royal Commission on Labor in 1892. A few years later his activity in Labor agitation decreased, and he took over a public-house in the neighborhood of Bow street, but in tho late 'nineties he emigrated to Australia. In January, 1909, the strike of the miners of Broken Hill on the Barrier broke out against the, reduction of wages. A certain section of the strikers took him up, and for » short time ho was a popular leader. A riot broke out, and Mr. Mann was arrested on a charge of taking part in it. He was committed, for trial, but the same was released on an understanding that he would take no further part in Labor agitation in New South Wales. After the Broken Hill troubles were over he came to New Zealand, and thence returned to England. In Iflll he again emerged from his retirement during the great railway strike. Mr. Mann next took a prominent part in the formation of the Industrial Syndicalist Education League. A GLUTTON FOR WORK. The late Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner for Canada, remained at work until within a few weeks of his death, at the age of ninety-four. He was a "two-meal-a-day" man during seventy years of his long life. His ideal day was one that gave him twelve clear hours for continuous work between an early breakfast and a late dinner, and he used to lament the loss of time entailed by holidays. "These Saturday afternoons and Sundays aro not good days,'' lie said once to a friend who visited him at his London offices on a Saturday morning: "Very disturbing to work: 110 office; no mail!" V . . BRIEF BUT POSITIVE. M,r. Alexander Miller, the well-known builder, of Roslvn, is not lavish with words. He says what he has to say briefly and to the point. Writing under date May Id, Mr. Miller says:—"l suffered from Rheumatism in my heels for two months, and was cured by RHEUMO in two or three days. I can recommend it to anyone suffering from the same complaint." It is a volume in a nutshell. Two months' agony cured in two days! "I can recommend it," says Mr. Miller. You can believe him. RHEUMO is sold by all chemists and storekeepers at 2/6 and 4/8 per bottle.